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Pitch me maybe? (Photo: flickr.com/joeshlabotnik) Tonight is the premiere of the Public’s revival of Sondheim’s In the Woods, which means free tickets were distributed at 1p.m. yesterday. Because New Yorkers love nothing so much as an excuse to stand in line at a park (see also: Shake Shack), Gothamist reports that...

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A new startup called Late Labs wants to connect coders with worthwhile side projects, and to reward them for their work with startup equity. The company lays out the problem on its mission page: “For Hustlers, its hard to find Hackers. For Hackers, side projects lose traction in the design & distribution...

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Mr. Pollack, in a tux. Business development professionals still don't have their own noun. It's either "I do biz dev for ____" or "she's in biz dev" or, our favorite, "they're biz dev folks." Maybe business... developers? Bizzy devvers? Bizzy dev bees? Hustlers-in-chief? Someone should come up with a phrase...

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While managing 30 million Draw Something downloads, parent company OMGPOP somehow found time to produce another game. Next week it will launch The Street, a Facebook game that looks like Farmville for hustlers. OMGPOP CEO Dan Porter says it will be "the realist game ever on Facebook." "Think Denzel...

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Thursday night, hundreds of members of the technology elite--founders, investors, hustlers, hackers--gathered at the Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall for the sixth annual Crunchies Awards, a ceremony which celebrates private-stock valuations and product launches instead of box-office scores and film premieres. When a handful of tech blogs launched The Crunchies...

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(Photo: twitter.com) Non Hustlers Need Not Apply Lerer Ventures is looking to hire a new analyst. The job requires one or two years of experience at a venture backed startup or major tech company. You have to also be “a sweet and cool person,” so no mean losers need apply. According to the...

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Los Angeles incubator Science has just made an interesting acquisition — and one that will give all its portfolio companies a huge advantage in getting traffic and revenue from Pinterest. It’s bought Pinpuff. You’ve probably never heard of it; we hadn’t. Pinpuff was an India-based platform built around Pinterest...

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“Shit I’m Gonna Talk About.” That’s how Dave McClure started his talk today at GROW conference in Vancouver, Canada, where he’s already been busy investing. He’s been doing a lot of speaking in Canada lately, having just recently flipped off Montreal’s tech entrepreneurs. McClure is focusing internationally this year, in...

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Soon there will be little left for us puny humans. Robots have long since replaced us at most menial tasks, now they're looking to claim our lucrative professional sports contracts. They've already proven their mettle at baseball, basketball and hockey. Now researchers at the University of Chicago and Cornell...

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Even in Silicon Valley, some people are jealous of New York's startup boogie. The cofounders of Tracks.by, a San Francisco startup which helps musicians cultivate online fans, jetted off to New York on a whim last week to drum up business and see what the buzz was about. Matt Schlicht...

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This embed is invalid The current of entrepreneurship in LA runs deep. Far beyond the walls of the converted lofts and retail spaces that house the city’s venture-backed startups, there’s an entirely different class of innovators and hustlers that make the city tick. From those who dropped everything and moved...

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At the beginning of this week, we kicked off our three-city TechCrunch Northern Meetup tour with the first stop in Toronto, Canada. The Northern Meetups crew — including John Biggs, Matt Burns, Jordan Crook, Darrell Etherington, Romain Dillet, Elin Blesener, and me — had an action-packed two days in...

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I hear the word “hustle” used a lot. Probably 10 times a day. It seems to be everyone’s new favorite word. As everyone hops on the “hustler” bandwagon, the definition of the word has started to get a bit fuzzy. More often than not, the folks using it seem...

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Silicon Valley is full of hustlers, and that’s often a good thing. But there’s a difference between hustling and flat-out lying, and when people deceive company after company, it’s time to call them out. So: If you look up Shirley Hornstein online, you might get the idea that she’s one...

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Hallway, a startup created by high-school students for high-school students, is launching to the public today with seed funding from Fortify.VC. The founders view their technology as the next logical step in education, and this summer, they’ve been testing the private beta at schools across the Greater Washington region. Hallway...

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New Jersey might not have the luster or the talent pool of the big city, but it's still home to a lively, tight-knit community of tech workers. Here, we drop in on the New Jersey Tech Meetup to discover more. UNITED STATES OF INNOVATION New Ideas, New Markets, New Insights...

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We are working with UK Trade & Investment to showcase the United Kingdom's thriving start-up and investment scene through a series of posts and video interviews at SXSW. Check out all of the coverage here. As always, VentureBeat is adamant about maintaining editorial objectivity. Why wasn’t there a standout killer...

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In the age of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn what you appear to be on the Internet is, for most of the people who will ever encounter your name, who you are. Chris Yeh knows this. He was once a nobody and now people pay attention to him because he's...

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After speaking with a number of fellow “Hustlers” (fellow fundraising CEOs), I was able to amass an awesome list of classic messages people have received from investors after initial contact or initial pitch. As the title implies, below are 25 ways people get rejected from investors. Maybe I am...